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Although ARM does not manufacture its own devices, its technology is present in the processors of the most popular devices that come from Samsung, Huawei, among others. So your announcement is an interesting preview of what we will see in the new generation of mobile devices.
Let's review some of its features.
Higher performance
If we talk about technical specifications, we find an architecture of 7 nm (nanometers) and a frequency of 3 GHz, with a notable improvement compared to the previous version, ARM Cortex-A76. More speed and performance.
What does this mean to us? That in the near future we will have mobile devices that will offer up to 20% more performance. This will allow device manufacturers to present new proposals to users and can take advantage of, for example, the potential of machine learning.
We can see how Cortex-A77 has improved compared to the previous version, which, although they share the same line, has several important updates:
Complex games that offer an immersive experience, multimedia content playback, multitasking, all of which will be more fluid from our mobile. And, of course, we can take advantage of updates to the most popular services and apps that require more and more device performance.
Higher energy consumption
This update could present a challenge in another respect, as this level of performance and increased graphics power will require more battery power, as the ARM team recognized.
Thus ARM shows once again that it is at the forefront in the development of processor architecture, anticipating the needs of manufacturers to bring a new generation of mobile devices. For example, one possibility is that Samsung and Qualcomm can license these designs.
Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality
On the other hand, ARM also presented its Mali-G77 GPU graphics chips, which stand out for offering up to 60% more performance in artificial intelligence applications and 40% more general performance compared to the previous version.
This confirms ARM's commitment to focus all its efforts on implementing an architecture at the service of machine learning, with special attention to augmented and virtual reality. On the one hand, Cortex-A77 gives up to 20% more performance and Mali-G77 the possibility of having high-quality graphics on mobile devices.
And of course, it also takes into account the demands that 5G will bring, and all the news that mobile device manufacturers are promising for the new models that will see the light of day in 2020. We will still have to wait to see teams that take advantage of the potential of Cortex-A77 CPU or Mali-G77 GPU, as it will be available to manufacturers next year.
